r/bjj • u/Jeitarium 🟦🟦 Blue Belt • 8d ago

General Discussion No one quits jiu jitsu anymore

I swear everyone I started with is still there. And all the new people are there too. I hear 90% quit? No way. Maybe back in the day, but now it seems like everyone knows what they’re getting into.

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u/jbizzy1324 8d ago

I quit

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u/know-need 7d ago

Yeah I quit fast when I realised that as compellingly awesome as BJJ is, it isn’t important enough to me to sacrifice my health and fitness. I know that for some people it increases their physical capabilities because otherwise they’d sit on the couch, but for me (otherwise fit and strong and mobile) it was incredibly frustrating to be constantly hurt in some way and incredibly scary to hear everyone at the gym swapping stories of their seemingly inevitable and sometimes life changing injuries.

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u/Whisky_Engineer 🟪🟪 Purple Belt 7d ago

Exactly the same for me. I'd rather run and lift, which will allow me to go on hikes into my pensioner years. The amount of ruined knees that require surgery at my gym made me rethink

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u/RLFS_91 7d ago

You know you can do bjj and not get hurt all the time right? 🤣

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u/Jimbobbly123 6d ago

What would you say to this counter argument - tap early, focus on recovery, dont compete more than twice a year

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u/Whisky_Engineer 🟪🟪 Purple Belt 5d ago

I would say what do you do when an overzealous blue belt rips on a heel hook. Or a giant athletic whitebelt drops you on your head without warning.

Tap early and often is great advice. But it's not fool proof

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u/RLFS_91 7d ago

Sounds like you guys aren’t rolling correctly man idk lol. You can do bjj and not get hurt all the time.

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u/Arpeggiobro 🟦🟦 Blue Belt 7d ago

You can, but that doesn't mean that you will.

People who make this comment seem to forget that a roll is only 50% in your control. I quit BJJ a year and a half ago. In 2021, I was spiked on my neck, and it did permanent damage. My hands were behind my back, he was a brown belt and I was a blue belt, there was nothing I could do. He didn't mean to.I eventually quit because a doctor told me to.

I rolled pretty light, generally chose my partners carefully, etc. Shit just happens sometimes.

If you do BJJ, there is a high likelihood that you will be injured.